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[markpie]

1. Blackbird
2. Desert Wheatear
3. Gyr
4. Herring Gull
5. cant see it being jay, but i cant think of what it is. i'll say Great Tit but that's surely wrong.

 

[Surreybirder]

1. Ring ouzel
2. Shore lark
3. Gyr
4. Herring Gull
5. Jay

 

[Dimitris]

1)Filedfare
2)Pied Wheatear
3)Saker Falcon
4)Herring Gull
5)Must be Roller

 

[markpie]

Yeah i agree with no.2:

1. Blackbird
2. Shore Lark
3. Gyr
4. Herring Gull
5. Great Tit

 

[lou salomon]

ken 2
dimi 1
mini-colster 4

there's an extrapoint for naming a subspecies...

 

[Jurij Hanžel]

1 Blackbird
2 Horned Lark
3 Gyr
4 Herring Gull
5 teneriffae Blue Tit

 

[postcardcv]

1. blackbird
2. shore ark
3. gyr
4. herring gull
5. bullfinch

 

[lou salomon]

postcardcv cracks it.. :clap: :clap:

i always found juv bullfinches look like north american birds, e.g. fem blue grosbeaks, but not like anything familiar here.

the nice balkan shore lark looks really different than the northern ssp, as we could confirm last may on bucegi-plateau in the carpathians, where they sang on rocks jutting out the deap snowcover.

 

[Saphire]

I couldn't have got two of those I don't have the shore ark or the gyr in any of my books.

 

[Surreybirder]

I couldn't have got two of those I don't have the shore ark or the gyr in any of my books.

I'm surprised you don't have shore lark.... it's a scarce but regular visitor to the UK. Gyrfalcons are obviously rarer but still not totally unexpected.
Ken

 

[lou salomon]

christine,
in order to have more fun and challenge i chose a variety of "normal" european but also some vagrant birds, all of which usually are covered by modern guides and books - these often include north africa and the middle east, i.e. together with europe the western palearctic. look again into your books, maybe you have overlooked Shore Lark. And Gyr = Gyr Falcon.
cheers,

 

[Saphire]

Thanks Lou, I only have the small Colins wild guide and macmillan field guide to bird identification. and nether are in these books. Looks like I will have to get some better books so I have a better chance of getting them right in the field.

 

[Saphire]

Found one . the shore lark I was looking in the wrong place. Still can't find the gyr falcon

 

[lou salomon]

a similar pattern.

5 extrapoints for naming 3 sp. correct on first trial, 10 extrapoints for naming all 5 on 1st trial. ( don't forget: it's just a game! :hi: )

have fun!

 

[Jurij Hanžel]

5 Great Bustard

I'm aware that you can't tell me if I got this one right or wrong, but that's all I can think of before going to school. I'll guess the 5 later.

EDIT: 2 Snow Bunting

 

[Surreybirder]

1 grey phalarope
2 eye-browed thrush
3 common snipe
4 dusky thrush
5 great bustard
Ken

 

[postcardcv]

little more than guesses but...
1. curlew sand
2. black eared wheatear
3. common snipe
4. fieldfare
5. great bustard

 

[Xenospiza]

1 Greater Sand Plover
2 Snow Bunting
3 Black-throated Thrush
4 Bluethroat
5 Great Bustard

 

[edenwatcher]

1. snow bunting
2.
3. jack snipe
4.
5. great bustard

still thinking about 2 and 4

Rob

 

[Dimitris]

1)Caspian Plover
2)Mousier's Redstart
3)Lokks like a Turdus: Red-throated Thrush (I know it's wrong)
4)A Catharus? Veery?
5)Great Bastard